Jeff Bingaman: “with regard to the employer, it would be extremely costly to require businesses to retrain and rehire new workers every…”

“with regard to the employer, it would be extremely costly to require businesses to retrain and rehire new workers every 2 years. No employer I am aware of would think it satisfactory for an employee to take a 1-year so-called break every couple of years. Each of us in the Senate employs people in our offices, here in the Capitol and our home States. This would be an unacceptable condition for us, and I am sure it would be for any employer. Businesses would have to hire other workers to take over for the leaving guest worker, would have to invest time and money in retraining additional staff. This would be extremely burdensome, particularly on small businesses. From an economic standpoint, I believe it generally does not make sense to enact laws that cause instability in the workforce and create requirements that unnecessarily impose significant costs on our small businesses. I am not an economist, but this does not seem to be a sensible way for us to do business.”